Brazilian gold rush
1693–1760 · Event
Gold strikes in Minas Gerais draw hundreds of thousands of Portuguese settlers and enslaved Africans; Brazil's population grows tenfold in a century.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, Slavery & Abolition, Economic History
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